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He made 10 appearances when on loan at Cheltenham Town towards the end of the 2015-16 season, helping them to win the National League title.

His most successful loan spell came at Barrow when he made 25 appearances, when he joined them in January 2017.

He re-joined Cheltenham on a season-long loan in June 2017 but was recalled after six months, after only making seven appearances in all competitions.

He then moved to Kiddeminster Harriers for a month where he made three appearances before he was released by Wolves at the end of last season.

Jonathan Flatt

What to expect from Flatt

Apart from Wolves, this is Flatt’s first permanent club.

He has spent most of the last three seasons on loan at various clubs and so has had no stability and this will obviously have an effect.

Now he knows he is at Scunthorpe, for the next year at least, he can focus fully on his football.

The fact that Flatt has signed just a one-year deal suggests that he has brought in as cover for Matt Gilks, who is out until at least 2019.

Scunthorpe needed a new keeper to add cover and competition for Rory Watson and Flatt seems to be that player, but you would expect Watson to start as the number one, with Flatt probably playing in the Checkatrade Trophy games.

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But again excluding Wolves, this will be the highest level Flatt has played at spending most of his time in the National League and it will be interesting as to how he handles the step up.

He featured for the Iron in the first pre-season friendly at Winterton and made some good saves.

What Flatt said about joining the Iron

“I’m just glad to get it over the line, have it sorted and concentrate on the football,” Flatt told the club website.

“It was good to play at Winterton, and get back out there. I enjoyed it. It’s new for me coming here. In that situation, you hope you get something to do and thankfully, towards the end, I made a few saves and showed what I was about.

“This is the first time I’ve ever been out of contract so it’s been a long summer. I was at Wolves from the age of eight, but I’ve had a fair few loans now.

Jonathan Flatt during his time at Wrexham

“Wolves has always been my base but now it’s time to create some new roots and I’m looking forward to it here.

“I’ve seen from the training we’ve had over the past week that Rory is a very good goalkeeper.

“We’re both looking forward to the competition and will keep pushing each other.